Stricken Sentence Examples

Stricken, she wrapped her arms around her knees and began to cry.

Herod was stricken with an incurable disease.

Henry, stricken with sore disease, was unable to reap the advantage.

With the exceptions of 1891 and 1894, every year in the period 1891-1900 was stricken by drought.

Here he remained for the rest of his life, with occasional visits to Honolulu, until he became stricken with leprosy in 1885.

The captain is last to leave his stricken ship.

Subsequently he entered holy orders, and in c. 1120, being stricken with fever while on a pilgrimage to Rome, vowed that he would found a hospital in London.

Wherever we were wounded and stricken her heart bled in sympathy, and all our maladies and miseries evoked from her a lyric wail."

In 1347 Florence was again stricken with famine, followed the next year by the most terrible plague it had ever experienced, which carried off three-fifths of the population (according to now threatened Florence in the person of Castruccio p Villani).

Henceforth the influence of Russia over Poland was steadily to increase, without any struggle at all, the Republic being already stricken with that creeping paralysis which ultimately left her a prey to her neighbours.

The immediate results of the stricken field were, however, but small.

Stricken with terror, Ivor thought he could see goblins and hobgoblins grinning wherever his lantern light flashed.

It seems strange to us that they are not stricken dumb by the new and awful solemnity of their position.

The tour included Neil in the Lifeboat simulator going to the aid of a stricken oil tanker which was on fire!

But the restored governments in their terror of revolution would not realize that the late rgime had wafted a breath of new life over the country and left ineffaceable traces in the way of improved laws, efficient administration, good roads and the sweeping away of old abuses; while the new-born idea of Italian unity, strengthened by a national pride revived on many a stricken field from Madrid to Moscow, was a force to be reckoned with.

Under their influence a new National Assembly met at Troezene in March 1827 and elected as president Count Capo d'Istria, formerly Russian minister for foreign affairs; at the same time a new constitution was promulgated which, when the very life of the insurrection seemed on the point of flickering out, set forth the full ideal of Pan-Hellenic dreams. Anarchy followed; war of Rumeliotes against Moreotes, of chief against chief; rival factions bombarded each other from the two forts at Nauplia over the stricken town, and in derision of the impotent government.

He was early familiar with the works of Matthew Arnold, Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer; he preached his Bible Studies sermons in 1878, when the higher criticism was wholly unknown to most evangelical ministers or known only to be dreaded; and his sermons on Evolution and Religion in 1885, when many of the ministry were denouncing evolution as atheistic. He was stricken with apoplexy while still active in the ministry, and died at Brooklyn on the 8th of March 1887, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.

Stricken by remorse, she entered torpor and was revived by Nanna with his own blood, shortly before the founding of Rome.

They revealed the stricken life assurer may not be able to meet its minimum solvency requirement or to repay its £ 346m in bonds.

The tour included Neil in the Lifeboat simulator going to the aid of a stricken oil tanker which was on fire !

The stricken yacht had no power, its anchor chain caught, perhaps round the prop.

A Chinese tug got a line to the stricken vessel.

He was injured whilst parachuting from the stricken aircraft.

This is particularly remarkable given the almost continued decimation of this stricken people and land by a succession of brutal, self-serving rulers.

It doesn't take long before those tiny creatures work their way into our hearts, and there is nothing worse than having to make the choice to put your pet down, especially if you have children who are also grief stricken.

For example, if you were a victim of identity theft, state that you would like the debt stricken from your records completely.

Fresh water is also a concern for drought stricken areas versus areas where floods occur.

Michael kills a nurse one day and his mother, stricken with grief, commits suicide.

Denny was a very active and healthy man who found himself stricken by a heart condition that required a heart transplant.

The story goes that after Castor died, Pollux was so grief stricken that he wished his immortality upon Castor.

Her expression must have looked stricken, because he reached for her.

Bianca gazed at him, pale and stricken.

Dusty's gonna kill me, he whispered, stricken.

Avicenna himself was at this season stricken down by a severe illness.

The head of her elder brother, the boy earl marshal, had been stricken off in the cornfield under the walls of York, but her younger brother's right to his father's dukedom was allowed by parliament in 1425.

In 1089 he was stricken with fever and he died on the 24th of May amidst universal lamentations.

The Central Provinces were stricken by another famine, yet more severe and widespread, caused by the complete failure of the rains in 1899.

For a short time the commercial interests of the stricken city centred at Bellavista, 14 m.

Trajan still thought of returning to Mesopotamia and of avenging his defeat at Hatra, but he was stricken with sickness and compelled to take ship for Italy.

The antiOrange party, remembering the fate of Oldenbarneveldt, were stricken with panic at the imprisonment of their leaders.

During the campaign Crawford was stricken with paralysis, and when the electoral vote was cast Jackson received 99, Adams 84, Crawford 41, and Clay 37.

A year after his marriage he had been stricken down by severe illness, from the effects of which he was never completely to recover; financial cares followed, which were relieved unexpectedly by the generosity of the hereditary prince of Holstein-Augustenburg and his minister, Graf Schimmelmann, who conferred upon him a pension of moo talers a year for three years.

Stricken by illness, Conrad returned to Constantinople at Christmas 1147, but in March 1148 set out to rejoin his troops.

Smallpox, dysentery and fevers, frequently of a bilious character, are endemic and occasionally epidemic. Cholera breaks out from time to time and works great havoc, as was the case in 1903 when one of the raja of Sarawak's punitive expeditions was stricken while ascending the Limbang river by boat, and lost many hundreds of its numbers before the coast could be regained.

In 1751 he accompanied his half-brother Lawrence, who was stricken with consumption, to the West Indies, where he had an attack of small-pox which left him marked for life.

Those of the plains find the temperature chilly, and are stricken down with influenza and pains in the limbs.

Another day he falls in with a decrepit old man, and stricken with dismay at the sight, renews his questions and hears for the first time of death.

Such was the situation when the president, early in July 1850, was stricken by the disease to which he succumbed on the 9th.

But as a childless queen her influence was limited; and when at last her only son, Edward, was born on the 13th of October 1453, her husband was stricken with insanity.

Unhappily, his vigorous frame was already stricken with disease, and, after a lingering illness, he died at Marburg, on the 23rd of November 1875, diligent to the end.

That night he was stricken with an acute attack of angina pectoris, and on the following day he died.

A year later the Emperor was stricken down by illness, and succumbed to it on July 30 1912.

The following year Victor Emmanuel was stricken with a threefold family misfortune; for his mother, the Queen Dowager Maria Teresa, his wife, Queen Adelaide, and his brother Ferdinand, duke of Genoa, died within a few weeks of each other.

Stricken with horror, he threw himself against the wall, covering his mouth as his four canine teeth grew into sharp fangs.

She sat, lifted her muzzle to the sky, and let out a mournful, grief stricken howl that stabbed both Sarah and Connor through to their core.

Vara and Hilden were silent, as stricken as he was as the demon freed itself from Memon's body enough to reach for Rissa.

Stricken by remorse, she entered Torpor and was revived by Nanna with his own blood, shortly before the founding of Rome.

Barry Gunner, as the reverend gentleman whose daughter is the first to be stricken by devil fever, has unusually good diction.

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It seems too macabre to suggest that she was a mourner at another funeral, stricken down suddenly on the platform and promptly buried!

Poor fellow, he was slain, and my heart was deeply pained at his loss and in sympathy with his stricken family.

The boat and its crew made steady progress, against a heavy swell, toward the stricken vessel in the Bristol Channel.

Its undisguised purpose was to keep us out of the stricken regions.

In 1522 Douglas was stricken by the plague which raged in London, and died at the house of his friend Lord Dacre.

The new-born idea of Italian unity, strengthened by a national pride revived on many a stricken field from Madrid to Moscow, was a force to be reckoned with.

In the same year he was made archbishop of Besancon, but meanwhile he had been stricken with a lingering disease; he was never enthroned, but died at Madrid on the 21st of September 1586.

On his return in 1847, he exchanged the naval for the military service, and was sent to join the U.S. army in Mexico, where he had some extraordinary adventures, and where he was again stricken with fever.

Sofi pitied the beautiful woman as a stricken look crossed her features.

The Spaniards laid siege to Leiden, and though stricken down by a fever at Delft the prince spared no exertion to save the town.

In his seventieth year, as lieutenant-general of the North, he led the English host on the great day of Flodden, earning a patent of the dukedom of Norfolk, dated 1 February 1513/4, and that strange patent which granted to him and his heirs that they should bear in the midst of the silver bend of their Howard shield a demi-lion stricken in the mouth with an arrow, in the right colours of the arms of the king of Scotland.

While the patient fellah, resigned to the decrees Of the Almighty, saw the ruling Egyptian class hurry away from Cairo, he saw also those of his comrades who were stricken tenderly nursed, soothed in deaths struggles, and in many cases actually washed, laid out and interred by their new self-sacrificing and determined masters.

For three weeks the old prince lay stricken by paralysis in the new house Prince Andrew had built at Bogucharovo, ever in the same state, getting neither better nor worse.

She forced herself to recall each of their faces, each of their names, each of their stricken families.

When she was stricken down with the illness which resulted in her loss of sight and hearing, at the age of nineteen months, she was learning to talk.

His woman awoke but was instantly stricken with a look of bewilderment.

My beautiful bride labored to the end, administrating to the fallen and the flu stricken souls of our town until she too, fell to the scourge of this most dreaded disease.

It was not Napoleon alone who had experienced that nightmare feeling of the mighty arm being stricken powerless, but all the generals and soldiers of his army whether they had taken part in the battle or not, after all their experience of previous battles--when after one tenth of such efforts the enemy had fled--experienced a similar feeling of terror before an enemy who, after losing HALF his men, stood as threateningly at the end as at the beginning of the battle.

The Bulgarian king Samuel was so stricken by the sight of his mighty army staggering back home that he suffered a stroke and died two days later.